Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla / / edited by Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle.
Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies...
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| Superior document: | Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ;
11. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004499423 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle. |